Unleash the Beast

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Chapter One – The Locked RoomRain hammered the windows of Greywood Orphanage, rattling them in their warped frames. The building groaned with every gust, as though it were alive and didn’t like the storm. The roof leaked in three places. The wallpaper peeled in curling strips. But to Ethan, it was still better than the streets he’d been on before coming here.Mrs. Wren, the matron, was a tall, thin woman with hair like steel wool and a voice that could cut glass. She had rules for everything—no running in the halls, no whispering after lights out, and above all, never go into the attic’s far end.Her warning about the attic came with a rare flash of real fear in her eyes.“Some doors keep you safe by staying closed,” she said once, catching him staring at the bolted door up there.The attic itself was a labyrinth of dusty trunks and forgotten furniture, a graveyard for the past. But at the f...

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